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From Baroness Pontalba to Kate Chopin to Mahalia Jackson, More than Petticoats: Remarkable Louisiana Women celebrates the women who shaped the Pelican State. Short, illuminating biographies and archvial photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBaroness Pontalba, 1795-1874Marie Laveau, 1801-1881Henriette Delille, 1813-1862Margaret Haughery, 1813-1882Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835-1868Eliza Nicholson, 1849-1896Kate Chopin, 1850-1904Grace Elizabeth King, 1852-1932Clara Gregory Baer, 1863-1938Carmelite Garrett Henry, 1883-1948Clementine Hunter, 1886-1988Caroline Dormon, 1888-1965Boswell Sisters: Martha 1905-1958, Connie 1907-1976, Helvetia 1911-1988Mahalia Jackson, 1911-1972Selected ReferencesAbout the Author

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: 01/03/2009
      ISBN13: 9780762741595, 978-0762741595
      ISBN10: 0762741597

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      Book Synopsis
      From Baroness Pontalba to Kate Chopin to Mahalia Jackson, More than Petticoats: Remarkable Louisiana Women celebrates the women who shaped the Pelican State. Short, illuminating biographies and archvial photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.

      Table of Contents
      AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBaroness Pontalba, 1795-1874Marie Laveau, 1801-1881Henriette Delille, 1813-1862Margaret Haughery, 1813-1882Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835-1868Eliza Nicholson, 1849-1896Kate Chopin, 1850-1904Grace Elizabeth King, 1852-1932Clara Gregory Baer, 1863-1938Carmelite Garrett Henry, 1883-1948Clementine Hunter, 1886-1988Caroline Dormon, 1888-1965Boswell Sisters: Martha 1905-1958, Connie 1907-1976, Helvetia 1911-1988Mahalia Jackson, 1911-1972Selected ReferencesAbout the Author

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